Greenstone tutorial exercises (2016)

Modified for Greenstone version: 2.87

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If you are working from a Greenstone Tutorial CD-ROM, DVD or USB flash drive, the sample files for these exercises are in the folder sample_files; otherwise they can be downloaded from sourceforge.

The text sometimes uses Windows terminology, but the exercises work equally well on other systems if you make appropriate changes to the pathnames.

Working with a pre-packaged collection (UNAIDS)

Installing a pre-packaged Greenstone collection
Browsing around a Greenstone collection
Searching within a Greenstone collection
Leaving the Greenstone digital library
Exercise: Use the UNAIDS collection to answer these questions

Working with a pre-packaged collection (Digital Libraries in Education)

Installing a pre-packaged collection
Browsing around a Greenstone collection
Exercise: Read the Help page; then answer these questions
Exercise: Use the How to build a digital library collection to answer these questions.

Installing Greenstone

Installing Greenstone on a Windows system

Updating a Greenstone installation

Removing Greenstone from a Windows system
Reinstalling Greenstone on a Windows system
Amalgamating different Greenstone collections

Building a small collection of HTML files

Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface
Starting a new collection
Adding documents to the collection
Building the collection
Viewing the extracted metadata
Viewing the internal links and external links
Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface

A simple image collection

Adding Title and Description metadata
Change Format Features to display new metadata
Changing the size of image thumbnails
Adding a browsing classifier based on Description metadata
Creating a searchable index based on Description metadata

A collection of Word and PDF files

Viewing the extracted metadata
Manually adding metadata to documents in a collection
Document Plugins
Search indexes
Browsing classifiers

Formatting the Word and PDF collection

Tidying up the default format statement
Linking to the Greenstone version or original version of documents
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Displaying multi-valued metadata
Advanced multi-valued metadata

Processing newer versions of PDF with PDFBox

Obtaining and installing the PDFBox extension for Greenstone
Turning on the PDFBox extension functionality in GLI

Enhanced PDF handling

Modes in the Librarian Interface
Splitting PDFs into sections
Using image format
Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
Opening PDF files with query terms highlighted

Enhanced Word document handling

Using Windows native scripting
Modes in the Librarian Interface
Defining styles
Removing pre-defined table of contents
Extracting document properties as metadata

Associated files: combining different versions of the same document together

Associating one document with another
Linking to associated documents

Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD

A large collection of HTML files—Tudor

Extracting more metadata from the HTML
Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels

Enhanced collection of HTML files—Tudor

Adding hierarchically-structured metadata and a Hierarchy classifier
Adding a hierarchical phrase browser (PHIND)
Partitioning the full-text index based on metadata values
Controlling the building process

Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor

Section tagging for HTML documents

Downloading files from the web

Pointing to documents on the web

Bibliographic collection

Using fielded searching
Exploding the database
Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata

CDS/ISIS collection

Customization: macro files and stylesheets

Collection specific customisation
Changing the colour of the page title and page text
Make your own Greenstone home page
How to determine which images to replace (advanced)

Looking at a multimedia collection

Building a multimedia collection

Manually correcting metadata
Browsing by media type
Suppressing dummy text
Using AZCompactList rather than List
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Adding a Phind phrase browser
Branding the collection with an image
Using UnknownPlugin
Cleaning up a title browser using regular expressions
Using non-standard macro files
Using different icons for different media types
Changing the collection's background image
Building a full-size version of the collection
Adding an image collage browser

Scanned image collection

Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
Browsing documents by Date.
Displaying scanned images and suppressing dummy text
Searching at page level
Tidying up search results

Advanced scanned image collection

Adding another newspaper to the collection
XML based item file
Using process_exp to control document processing
Switching between images and text

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection

Tweaking the presentation with format statements

Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server

Validating the Greenstone OAI server

Downloading over OAI

Downloading using the Librarian Interface
Downloading using the command line
Building the downloaded documents in GLI

Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation

Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone

Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's

Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace

Using Greenstone from the command line

Editing metadata sets

Running GEMS
Creating a new metadata set
Adding a new element to a metadata set

Building and searching with different indexers

Build with Lucene
Search with Lucene
Build with MGPP
Search with MGPP
Use search mode hotkeys with query term
A quick reference of the search mode hotkeys in MGPP

Incremental building of a collection

The Depositor
Enabling The Depositor
Setting a user group
Use the Depositor to do incremental addition
Batch addition with the Depositor

Incrementally building a collection using the command line

Incrementally adding some additional new documents to a collection
Incrementally deleting some documents from a collection
Editing a document's text and metadata, and then incrementally rebuilding the collection
Incrementally indexing automatically